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Apr 9, 2012humorThe Sandal RevolutionThe box arrived from Bloomingdale’s just as my husband, Brett, was walking out the door to attend a neighborhood meeting one evening. ...
Mar 2, 2012On The VergeMommy 2.0In 6th grade, I had to write my first big research paper. This paper was so enormous that it took the entire second half of the school...
Feb 22, 2012humorFake Academy Awards 2012Last year, my husband and I created a matrix in order to determine how to win an Oscar in 14 easy steps. You can view it here on the...
Feb 15, 2012Jewish humorLessons from Downton Abbey: A Jewish American Princess studies the Dowager CountessI admire the British for so many reasons. They have a rich history of beheading enemies of the monarchy without ever compromising...
Feb 3, 2012On The VergeSwedish Meatballs, a Storm, and My BasementThe title sounds like the set-up for a joke, where a man walks into a bar with a duck on his right shoulder and a cat on his left. But,...